Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-18

Browns Iron Btters effected perfect cure. |
cannot speak too highly of this valuable medicine"
Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines
on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by
BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE. MD.
"What shall 1 do with them?" says the
father and the husband. 81 will give
four of these nights to the improvement
and entertainment of my family, either at
home or in good neighborhoOd. l will
devote one to charitable institutions. l
will devote one to my lodge"
congratulate you. Here is a man VINO
says: "Out of the six secular nights of
the week l will devote five to lodges and
clubs and associations and one to the
home, which night l will spend in scOwl-
ing like March squat, wishing I was
out spending it as have spent the other
five" That mans obituary is written.
Not one out of 0,000 that ever gets so
far on the wro2g road ever stops. Grad
ually his health will fail through late
hours and through too much stimulants;
he will be frst-rate prey for erysipelas
and rheumatism of the heart. The doc
tor coming in will at a glance see 1t IS
not only preseng disease ne must fight but
years of fast living. The Clergyman, for
the sake of the feelings of the family, on
the funeral day will only talk in religious
generalities. The men who got his yacht
In the eternal rapids will not be at the
obsequies. They have pressing engage
ments that day. They will send flowers
TO the coffin-will send their wives to
utter words of sympathY-but they will
have engagements elsewhere. They never
come. Bring me mallet and chisel and |
will cut on the tombstone that mans cpl
taph: 'Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord" "No." you say, "that would
not be appropriate. ''Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last
end be like MIS-" "No," you say, "that
would not be appropriate" Then give
me the msIlet and the chisel, and l will
cut an honest epitaph: "Here lies the
victim of dissipating associations"
Another test by which you eau find
whether your secret society is right or
wrong is the effect it has on your secular
occupation. l can understand now
through such an institution man can
reach commercial success. | know some
men have formed their best business
relations through such a channel. II the
secret society has adyantaged you in an
honorable calling 1t is a good one. But
has your credit failed? Are bargain
with bale of goods? Have the men
whose names were down in the CONNER
cial agency A l before they entered the So
ciety been going down since in commercial
standing? Then look out. You and every
day know of commercial establishments
going to ruin through the social excuses
of one OF two members, their fortune
beaten to death with ail-players, bat or
cut amidshIps with the front Prov of the
regatta, or going down under the swift
hoofs of the fast horses, or drowned in
the large rotations Of cognac or MOnOn-
gahela. That secret society was the
Loeb Earn. Their business was the
Vile de Havre. They struck and the
Wills de Havre went under.
TIE third test by which you may know
whether the society IT, which you belong
is good or bad Is this: What is its effect
on your sense OF moral and religious OBJ
legation? Now, if | should take the
names of all the people in this audience
this morning and put them on roll, and
then l should lay that roll back of this
organ, and 100 years from nov some one
should take that roll and call it from A to
L there would not one of you answer. |
say that any society that makes me forget
that fact is a bad society. When | 60 to
Chicago l am sometimes perplexed at
Buffalo, as suppose many travellers are,
as to whether it is better to take the
Lake Shore route or the Michigan Cen
trial, equally expeditions and equally safe,
getting to their destination at the same
time. But suppose that hear that on
one route the track is torn up, the
bridges are down and the switches are
unlocked, It will not take me great
while to decide which road to take. Now,
here are two roads in the future-the
Christian and the unchristian, the safe
and the unsafe. Any institution or any
association that cOnfuses my ideas in re-
gard to that fact is bad institution and
bad association. l had prayers before
Joined that society, did l have them af-
terWard? | attended the house OF God be-
fore connected myself with that union,
do absent myself from religious indu-
ences? Which would you rather have in
your hand when you come to die-a pack
of cards or Bible Which would you
rather have pressed to your lips in the
closing moment-the cup of Belshazzar-
can Wassail or the chalice of Christian
communion? Who would you rather have
tor your pallbearers-the elders Of q
Christian church or the companions whose
conversation was full of slang and inuen-
do? Who would you rather have for your
eternal COmpaniOns-those men who spend
their evenings betting, gambling, swear
ing, carousing and telling vile stories, or
your little girl, that bright child whom
the Lord took? On, you would not have
been away so much nights, would you, if
you had known she was going away so
so soon? Dear me, your house has never
been the same place since. Your wife has
never frightened up. She has never got
over it; she never will get over it. How
long the evenings are, with no one TO put
to bed and no one to whom 10 tell the
beautiful Bible stories.
What pity it is that you cannot spend
more evenings at home trying to help her
bear that sorrow. You can never drown
that grief in the wine cup. You can
never break away from the little arms
that used to be flung around your neck
when she used to say: "Papa, do stay
with me to night. Do stay with me to-
ha ohl